The United States disregarded advanced warning of a 2000 Al Qaeda plot to hijack a commercial airliner because “nobody believed that Usama bin Laden’s organization or the Taliban could carry out such an operation,” according to intelligence documents obtained by Judicial Watch. It took the government 11 years to furnish…

Weak congressional oversight over the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) keeps the United States vulnerable to terrorist threats posed by small aircraft and boats, cyber attacks and biological weapons, according to a diverse panel of lawmakers and security officials. This may be difficult to swallow twelve years after the worst…

The al Qaeda terrorist that President Obama ordered assassinated by drone was closely monitored by the FBI and even followed to the Pentagon’s front door years before his murder, according to documents obtained by Judicial Watch. The files, more than 250 pages of FBI surveillance logs, illustrate alarming incompetence by…

A director at the Homeland Security agency charged with immigration enforcement has publicly guaranteed that illegal aliens arrested by local police and reported to the feds won’t automatically be deported. It may seem preposterous but this is reality in the Obama Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The story comes out…

The State Department has long known that weak security at American embassies and consulates worldwide could result in a tragedy like Benghazi but warnings have been ignored and a former Clinton administration official runs the division behind the scandal. Alarming details are laid out in a scathing new report put…

As Congress moved to defund President Obama’s special advocate for illegal immigrants at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the title was quietly rebranded to protect the position, according to internal agency documents obtained by Judicial Watch this week. It’s simply part of the president’s well-established pattern of abusing his authority…

As the twelfth anniversary of 9/11 approaches, most of the nuclear facilities in the United States remain unprotected against credible terrorist threats, including the theft of bomb-grade material and sabotage that can cause a deadly reactor meltdown. This is astonishing considering the bipartisan 9/11 Commission Report revealed years ago that…

The U.S. government fails to properly vet people with access to secure areas at airports and harbors and those cleared to transport hazardous materials, according to a federal investigation launched by a Democrat who sits on the House Committee on Homeland Security. News of this inconceivable homeland security vulnerability could…

A federal court in Texas has chided the backdoor Obama amnesty initiative that will spare nearly a million illegal immigrants, writing in a ruling that it’s “contrary to congressional mandate.” The admonishment comes from Judge Reed O’Connor in Dallas, who this week dismissed a lawsuit brought by 10 Immigration and…

As the twelfth anniversary of 9/11 approaches a government report illustrates that the nation’s transportation system is not much safer than it was when Islamic terrorists carried out their plot using passenger airplanes as a weapon to murder thousands. That’s because the 56,000-employee monster—the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)—created to

While the Obama administration insists that illegal border crossings are at the lowest level in decades, local law enforcement agencies in municipalities near the Mexican border remain overwhelmed with the impact that illegal immigration continues to have on their force. Not that we necessarily believe the administration’s seemingly distorted claims…

Two employees at a government-owned nuclear laboratory with a long and sordid history of grave security breaches have pleaded guilty to federal charges for passing classified weapons data to a foreign government that’s hostile to the U.S. It marks the latest of many shameful scandals at the Los Alamos National…

The U.S. proposal to secure the southern border has caused outrage in Mexico, with one renowned Mexican academic claiming in Spanish-language media that deploying more federal agents to the region is tantamount to an increase in “human rights violations.” Under the immigration reform bill floating around in the U.S. Senate…

As if it weren’t bad enough that the U.S. government has blown $1 billion on a faulty system that’s supposed to detect biological attacks, Homeland Security officials now reveal it’s not exactly the right technology for the job and they want more money to revamp it. It only took the…

In yet another egregious example of government waste, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) continues funding an ineffective 6-year-old program that’s supposed to spot terrorists at airports but has failed miserably despite burning through a ghastly $878 million. Incredibly, the feds seem to have no intention of killing the costly…

The FBI lied to Congress about the deep ties between a Florida Saudi family—that abruptly fled weeks before the 9/11 terrorist attacks—and the hijackers who carried out the plot, according to alarming new records uncovered by a journalism watchdog that’s led the effort to expose the government cover-up. This scandal…

Nearly a dozen years after the devastation of 9/11 the U.S. government still hasn’t found a way to keep track of foreigners who overstay their visa, including hundreds considered by authorities to be national security threats. Have we learned nothing from the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history? Over the…

Surprise, surprise the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has rejected the media’s requests for the immigration records of the Boston Marathon bombers, likely because they contain information that could further embarrass the government. After all, the feds ignored critical warnings from Russia about the older Chechen terrorist (Tamerlan Tsarnaev) and…

Here is a chilling story that’s quite revealing about the U.S. “intelligence” community; a spy earned top secret security clearance, somehow infiltrated the State Department and operated a decades-long espionage ring for a terrorist-sponsoring foreign government. It actually gets better; when the feds finally got a clue the spy, Marta…

Updated 4 p.m. Friday related to arrest versus conviction issue: One of the Chechen terrorists who carried out the Boston Marathon bombings could have been deported years ago after a criminal arrest and/or conviction and the other was granted American citizenship on the 11th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack on…